J.C. "Apple Jack" Smith is standing behind the chain-link fence. His son Max Smith, wearing the white hat, is not at the steering "wheel", despite the inscription on the reverse. The un-named Englishman on the left (perhaps David Dick) has his hand on the steering tiller.
In the background can be seen part of J. C. Smith's farmhouse, "Apple Villa", on the northeast corner of Smith Avenue, now 2021 Lakeshore Road.

Notes:

This Model E Rambler, owned by M. C. "Max" Smith, was the first car in Halton County.
The Rambler was made by Thomas Jeffrey, a former manufacturer of Rambler bicycles located in Chicago, who had started a car factory in 1900 in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
The Rambler car of 1902 had the engine under the seat, but was well built, and reasonably priced. Jeffrey was an innovator, the first to move the engine to the front of the car (by 1904), and to make the steering tiller into a steering wheel, easing driving into a near unconscious effort.
One of Jeffrey's first dealers was John North Willys, who was born in 1873 in a small central-western New York village called Canandaigua.The name Canandaigua was derived from the five-nation council of native Americans that comprised the Haudenosaunee (the people of the Long Houses) tribes of the Seneca, Onondaga, Cayuga, Oneida, and Mohawks.
Smith's Rambler dealer is not yet known, but the first-nations link with Burlington is suggestive.

Please see the "Comments" for more on this Rambler.

BHS also has a photographic print measuring 16.7 by 11.7 cm.

Inscriptions:

Written in ink on the reverse: "Taken in Smiths lane - his father's home -- his father at the gate -- Max Smith at the wheel and an Englishman. A Rambler, 1st car in Halton Co."

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M. C. (Max) Smith in his 1903 Rambler, Smith Lane, ca 1903

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J.C. "Apple Jack" Smith is standing behind the chain-link fence. His son Max Smith, wearing the white hat, is not at the steering "wheel", despite the inscription on the reverse. The un-named Englishman on the left (perhaps David Dick) has his hand on the steering tiller.
In the background can be seen part of J. C. Smith's farmhouse, "Apple Villa", on the northeast corner of Smith Avenue, now 2021 Lakeshore Road.